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Others, I am not the first, Have willed more mischief than they durst: If in the breathless night I too Shiver now, 'tis nothing new. More than I, if truth were told, Have stood and sweated hot and cold, And through their reins in ice and fire Fear contended with desire. Agued once like me were they, But I like them shall win my way Lastly to the bed of mould Where there's neither heat nor cold. But from my grave across my brow Plays no wind of healing now, And fire and ice within me fight Beneath the suffocating night. A.E. Housman

PhreakNIC 7 :: Nashville, TN
Topic: Technology 1:17 pm EDT, Apr 25, 2003

] PhreakNIC 7 dates have been set for October 24-26, 2003!

PhreakNIC 7 :: Nashville, TN


Campus hacker gets probation
Topic: Miscellaneous 1:16 pm EDT, Apr 25, 2003

"BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- A former Boston College student accused of using special software to collect personal data on thousands of fellow students, staff and faculty was sentenced to five years of probation. "

Well if you commit a crime with this information, thats one thing, helping people out is another thing entirely.

Campus hacker gets probation


Basics of Spoofing, a good read for those interested in networking.
Topic: Technology 1:14 pm EDT, Apr 25, 2003

Exerpt

{The ARPA Computer Network is susceptible to security violations for at least the three following reasons:

(1) Individual sites, used to physical limitations on machine access, have not yet taken sufficient precautions toward securing their systems against unauthorized remote use. For example, many people still use passwords which are easy to guess: their fist names, their initials, their host name spelled backwards, a string of characters which are easy to type in sequence (e.g. ZXCVBNM).

(2) The TIP allows access to the ARPANET to a much wider audience than is thought or intended. TIP phone numbers are posted, like those scribbled hastily on the walls of phone booths and men's rooms. The TIP required no user identification before giving service. Thus, many people, including those who used to spend their time ripping off Ma Bell, get access to our stockings in a most anonymous way.

(3) There is lingering affection for the challenge of breaking someone's system. This affection lingers despite the fact that everyone knows that it's easy to break systems, even easier to crash them.

All of this would be quite humorous and cause for raucous eye winking and elbow nudging, if it weren't for the fact that in recent weeks at least two major serving hosts were crashed under suspicious circumstances by people who knew what they were risking; on yet a third system, the system wheel password was compromised -- by two high school students in Los Angeles no less.

We suspect that the number of dangerous security violations is larger than any of us know is growing. You are advised not to sit "in hope that Saint Nicholas would soon be there".}

Basics of Spoofing, a good read for those interested in networking.


USATODAY.com - Penn State students tossed offline for music-file swapping
Topic: Miscellaneous 5:54 am EDT, Apr 23, 2003

] Penn State deprived 220 students of high-speed Internet
] connections in their dorms after it found they were
] sharing copyrighted material, the university said Monday.
W00T!!! GO MUSIC INDUSTRY!!! You get those mean old college students!!!! GOOD JOB!!!!

USATODAY.com - Penn State students tossed offline for music-file swapping


USATODAY.com - AMD's 64-bit chip brings company out of Intel's shadow
Topic: Miscellaneous 5:45 am EDT, Apr 23, 2003

] In the biggest gamble of its 33-year history, Advanced
] Micro Devices on Tuesday launched a high-powered
] microprocessor that aims to offer server makers an
] alternative to rival chipmaker Intel's products.
Finally, THANK YOU GOD!!!!

USATODAY.com - AMD's 64-bit chip brings company out of Intel's shadow


BlackBoard Inc.
Topic: Current Events 5:09 am EDT, Apr 23, 2003

The statement put up by blackboard about Interz0ne

BlackBoard Inc.


HAPPY BIRTHDAY RATTLE!!!!!!!!!!1
Topic: Miscellaneous 5:07 am EDT, Apr 23, 2003

Today, April 21st, is Rattle's birthday!!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! Everyone, near and far, raise a toast (or several) to this great man!!!!!!! :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RATTLE!!!!!!!!!!1


Your glow stick could land you in jail
Topic: Society 12:53 am EDT, Apr 17, 2003

Last Thursday, the House and Senate almost unanimously passed the National AMBER Alert Network Act of 2003, a popular bill that will soon create a nationwide kidnapping alert system. Coming in the wake of a year of high-profile child abductions -- from Elizabeth Smart (whose parents supported the bill) to Samantha Runnion -- the bill was a no-brainer, destined to pass quickly and smoothly through Congress.

Surely Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) knew this, which explains why he cannily sneaked his own, completely unrelated legislation into the AMBER Act just two days before the vote. Piggybacked onto the act was the Anti-Drug Proliferation Act, a thinly veiled rewrite of legislation that had proved so controversial in 2002 that it failed to pass a single congressional committee. Now, club owners and partyers alike are being subjected to a loosely worded and heavy-handed law that authorities will be able to indiscriminately use to shut down music events at any time they please, assuming they find evidence of drug use. Thanks to Biden's surreptitious efforts, a few glow sticks and a customer or two on Ecstasy could be all it takes to throw a party promoter in jail for 20 years.

...

In English, this meant that anyone who intentionally let people do drugs at their events could be held liable. It also expanded the crack-house statute in two significant ways: Now the law could be applied to one-night events -- concerts, raves, parties, festivals -- as well as permanent locales like nightclubs, and it added civil penalties for violations, lowering the burden of proof from "beyond reasonable doubt" to a "preponderance of evidence."

And the trampling of Civil Liberties just goes on and on! What would constitute knowledge that people are going to do drugs at your party or festival? The article lists the presence of overpriced bottles of water, glow sticks and pacifiers. Imagine this being applied broadly to shut down hacker conventions because there might be underage drinking or other illegal drug use. Time to cancel the masquerade party where someone would undoubtedly show up as a baby? Then apply it further and you could end up with college fraternities being shut down for throwing a costume party. This law could bring back the days of River City, IA, in The Music Man.

Dolemite

Your glow stick could land you in jail


Honda's New Accord
Topic: Technology 2:02 am EDT, Apr 16, 2003

] This ad is most definitely a nod to the filmmakers Peter
] Fischli and David Weiss. Their 1987 film, "The Way Things
] Go" is a 30-minute-long showing of a contraption they
] built out of household items.

VERY cool. I want to see the whole movie, not just the car commercial.

Honda's New Accord


Interz0ne: Cease and Desist Letter - 20030411
Topic: Society 3:26 am EDT, Apr 15, 2003

Interz0ne talk censored due to DMCA notice (blogging from the sequestered talk (which is instead a discussion about what occured)).

(Rattle here blogging live from my talk.. There is a reason I have been going around all day chanting "Chilling Effects" in ominous tones..)

Interz0ne: Cease and Desist Letter - 20030411


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